To the phones again!

Next week the Senate Republicans will put forth an abomination called the Graham-Cassidy bill, which intends to repeal the Affordable Care Act and eliminate health care for millions of Americans. Oh, its sponsors would deny that hotly, but it’s nonetheless true. In reality, Graham-Cassidy is the opposite of moderate. It contains, in exaggerated and almost …

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Is this zombie really dead?

The Senate couldn’t pass the “skinny repeal” bill tonight. It failed on a 49 Aye – 51 Nay vote at 1:30 AM. Senator John McCain provided the 51st vote against it. There will be pages of analysis and post-mortems in tomorrow’s papers and probably a bunch of surly Trump Tweets too. I just hope the …

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McCain never has been much of a “Maverick”

Headline: John McCain to return to Senate Tuesday for health care vote McCain’s office announced Monday night that he would return Tuesday — a surprise to most in Washington who expected him to miss the crucial vote and return to Washington at a later date. McCain is expected to get GOP leadership one vote closer …

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Such a day!

So He, Trump takes on a mother with a crying baby and forces her to take the child out of the hall he was speaking in. Then he refuses to endorse Speaker Paul Ryan, Senator John McCain and Senator Kelly Ayotte in their upcoming primary elections. He gets chastised by the sitting President as “unfit” …

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